After my umpteenth* workday devoted to catching up, I am making a new commitment to myself**:
I will not lay collected assignments on the first horizontal space available;
I will designate trays, folders, or boxes for collection ahead of time:
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
I will not go home before homework and class work collected that day are graded;
I will grade projects, big and small, the same week I get them:
Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
I will not let disorder and clutter disturb my learning environment;
I will delegate and designate helpers and systems to distribute and organize materials:
A clean classroom is a happy classroom.
I hereby pledge my commitment to organization and order.
* I am tempted to go back and count them over the
past 5 years. But that's what happens on workdays: I am tempted to do
anything but work.
** Once I emerge from this murky pool of papers, which may or may not be after today.
Comments (3)
nice! i know i'll need this when i go back to work...
Ha! I can't count how many of these I've sworn.
I need to take a page from your oath. It seems like I'm constantly picking up my desk space. There are boxes and piles here and there. Where does this stuff come from?